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He’s gotta go

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Are you enjoying this?

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it was worth a try

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AU where berdly's gaming knowledge allows him to instantly recognize what's going on with kris but no one listens cause he's annoying

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I think Toriel is an alcoholic. The scene at the very end of chapter 4 where she's dancing with Sans, I wanted to highlight Kris's reaction.

They're disappointed and embarrassed Suzie has to see this, but they're not surprised like she is. They don't want to engage in this situation at all.

She's a happy drunk, having a good time, sure. She offers Kris some food, but doesn't engage with them at all. Doesn't check in why they were out so late or on their mental state. There's so many themes of neglect in deltarune that this clearly isn't just a one off event.

This scene is just a Lot, it just struck me mostly because I watched nearly this exact same scene play out with my own mother.

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BegForMercy 🥤

(original)

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congrats on the divorce

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Tenner

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Sleepy ...

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did i cook be honest

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Akechi's nightmare

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ren and ann (not) studying

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grieving your guiding light (missed maruki deadline ending)

(Not Shipping)

optional thoughts yapping about this:

There is something about the missed deadline ending that reminds me deeply of Rumi with the way Ren wakes up and has a hazy memory like Rumi did.

Maruki puts Ren on a weird high horse, something i’d say even close to worshipping. Maruki’s palace has religious undertones as is, picturing Rumi as his “Eve,” and he pictures Ren as his “guiding light.” He willingly put the continued existence of a Utopia onto a teenage boy who he knew had a sentimental heart. He manipulated him by showing him that if he didn’t accept the reality then he’s ripping his friends away of happiness, and then the disgusting act of using Akechi’s “corpse” and using him as an “it” to basically say “the blood is on your hands.”

Anyways, Maruki has weak morals. The “don’t throw away your mask” song repeats “don’t sleep through dreams that can come true,” and yet, the moment Ren was too much trouble, he convinced himself that putting him in permanent sleep purgatory was the way to his happiness. He acts high and mighty about what is right, what is suffering, what is happiness, yet he fails to have a solid thinking of what “justice” is, unlike the phantom thieves and Akechi. NCP dialogue throughout third semester reveals many contradictions in the reality. His reality is faulty at best and it will continue to contradict on top of itself over and over until it’s a giant mush.

Because he genuinely convinced himself this was the best thing to do, I see him grieving over Ren, in a sense. Even in the ending he says “i wanted you to accept this gift with your own free will.” It’s not like he necessarily wanted to do this to Ren, but he believes he is “selfless” enough to do so.

He lost Ren, his light to his research. And he lost Rumi, the person who he created a perfect world for. The moment he realized Rumi couldn’t remember her trauma, he decided right then and there that he would not remind her of it, and clarified her as something he “lost.” He sees forgetting as happiness, so truly, he has no problem with “sleeping through dreams that can come true.” And I don’t think it would stop at Ren, why would it? The moment someone’s issues contradict with another, the easiest solution is something like Ren’s state. His reality will have no actual life eventually. A psychological murder of the human race.

Placing this much expectation on a teenage boy is all in all gross, and he was too reliant on him. He confided in a young boy and got attached. He sickeningly grieves over what “had to happen” with Ren, falling in self pity. And that’s what happened with Rumi, aka falling into a self pitying of “losing her” when it was his own doings. But he fully, genuinely believes he lost both of them.

This is not to say I think Maruki is obsessed over him in this ending; far far from it, he has other issues to attend to and a whole reality to create. If anything, he forgets him at some point. But at the beginning, I can see him visiting a couple times, or looking over him from afar like a God would. But Rumi will forever be engraved in his palace, and I think Ren would be too, with them both being the reasons why Maruki could create this reality.

I can also get into how him seeing Ren’s desire and grief for Akechi also reminds me of Maruki and Rumi but that’s a can of worms for another day lmao

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whatever. royal trio be upon ye

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yusuke is such a creature

also im on bluesky now

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